We saw Paul in Brisbane 2017... finally, after waiting my whole life :) Anyway, I NEED to know what Wix (Paul Wickens) was playing. It was some sort of wind synth he was blowing into. We only got a quick glipse of it every now and then and I don't even know what to Google to find it :)

We saw Paul in Brisbane 2017... finally, after waiting my whole life :) Anyway, I NEED to know what Wix (Paul Wickens) was playing. It was some sort of wind synth he was blowing into. We only got a quick glipse of it every now and then and I don't even know what to Google to find it :)

Any ideas??

He demonstrates it in this clip, https://youtu.be/23Zy24AC6DE?t=1m38s (starting at 1:38), and uses it in, e.g., Lady Madonna for the sax sounds. He says in the clip that it's a TEControl Breath Controller (MIDI I assume).

We saw Paul in Brisbane 2017... finally, after waiting my whole life :) Anyway, I NEED to know what Wix (Paul Wickens) was playing. It was some sort of wind synth he was blowing into. We only got a quick glipse of it every now and then and I don't even know what to Google to find it :)

"As soon as the breath controller came out from Yamaha, the BC1, that was like another foot pedal for me. I used that to add brightness to things, or to try and play pretend wind instruments back in the day. I was a very early adopter of that and I’ve used it ever since. I use that in MainStage all for the sax sounds and I use it on the brass now to give it a bit of timbre to help the swells."